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damage ; and to repair which, the whole 

 fquadron was obliged to lay to fome- 

 times for a whole day. The privateer 

 kept her flat ion, jogging on with the 

 fleet. At laft, the commodore ordered 

 two of his beft-going fliips to chace her. 

 She appeared to take no notice of them 

 till they were pretty near her, and then 

 would make fail and be out of fight 

 prefently. The chacing fliips no fooner 

 returned, than the privateer was in com- 

 pany again. As by this every night 

 fome accident happened to fome of the 

 convoy by keeping fo clofe together, a 

 fine fhip of thirty guns, belonging to 

 Marfeilles, hauled out a little to wind- 

 ward of the reft of the fleet ; which 

 L'Etanducre perceiving in the morning, 

 ordered the frigate to bring the captain 

 of her on board of him ; and then 

 making a fignal for all the convoy to 

 clofe to him, he fired a gun, and hoifted 



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